Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reports of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Prepared in Obedience to the Act of May 10, 1800, "Supplementary to the Act Entitled 'an Act to Establish the Treasury Department'," Vol. 6: To Which Are Prefixed the Reports of Alexander Hamilton, on Public Credit, a National Bank, Manufactures, and the Establishment of a Mint About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.